Vial of Stolen Memories

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Comment by GoBLiN

seems like a must have tank trinket in Cata

Comment by Tauranbalanc

Drops from Valiona and Theralion in Bastion of Twilight.

Comment by TehScat

Does the use effect seem a little strong to anyone else? 24.6% dodge (before DR) is pretty damn high, and 20s per 120s means its up 1/6 of the time if used on cooldown (or close to it, as mechanics dictate).

Comment by darknesscalls

@Thescat

It's 7% dodge or so not 24.6%, I think the wowhead tooltip is bugged.

There is no animation when you use this trinket, very sad =(

Comment by ibmurai

The stamina alone makes this awesome for tanks. The cd is a nice bonus :)

I'm pretty sure the cd is 3 minutes, not 2. Don't know if this is a recent change, since I only got it last night :)

Comment by Muspel

This trinket isn't bad, exactly, but the other available tank trinkets are significantly better. Symbiotic Worm gives just as much stamina, but it has a mastery proc, which is better than dodge. And Mirror of Broken Images is the best tank trinket that's ever been made, due to the massive amount of mastery and the jaw-droppingly powerful on-use.

The only possible time you'd use this trinket is for Chimaeron on heroic, assuming that you have access to the two trinkets listed above.

Comment by wyhn

No animation at all :'(

Comment by Vaydra

This trinket isn't bad, exactly, but the other available tank trinkets are significantly better. Symbiotic Worm gives just as much stamina, but it has a mastery proc, which is better than dodge. And Mirror of Broken Images is the best tank trinket that's ever been made, due to the massive amount of mastery and the jaw-droppingly powerful on-use.

The only possible time you'd use this trinket is for Chimaeron on heroic, assuming that you have access to the two trinkets listed above.

I realize this is a quote from the start of the expansion but i do not think its a fair assessment of this trinket.

For block tanks the question of which is better the worm vs the vial has alot of considerations. How many times will you be dropping below 35%? How far apart will those time be? Will you want the proc up when your above 35%? Whats more important to you overall damage reduction or damage reduction when needed? On this boss whats more dangerous taking back to back unblocked hits or the healer running out of mana.

If you completely ignore the durations and cds and look just at the proc the mastery proc is better....if you are only concerned with CTC and poorly geared. Mastery procs scale horribly because they cause you to exceed the block cap. Avoidance on the other hand will always be useful. When block capped the proc is useless but the vial's on use will still benefit you.

At 12% dodge (1324 rating) the vial gives you 6.71% dodge. The worm gives about 12.09 block to a paladin.

This means that the on use of this trinket will be better than the worm's proc at around 95.69%CTC for both maximum damage reduction AND CTC. Up till that point tanks concerned with minimizing worst case scenarioes should favor the worm. The vial on use in comparison to the proc will always provide more damage reduction when up so tanks wanting to minimize damage during boss burst should favor the vial.

If you concerned with overall damage reduction and saving your healer as much mana as possible then the worm only beats out the vial if you are going below 35% health every 39seconds or less. Very unlikely.

Every trinket has a fight or two when it shines, but if i was going into an encounter blind i would take the vial over the worm. Its added control, and your average raiding tanks gear level would make it a much better trinket.